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Sandra Burshell

Statement

Painting figures just happened. After a 20-year hiatus, my interiors became populated. Maybe it was my need to connect with people post-Katrina. The interiors felt empty and did not express my optimism for New Orleans's future. The "Big Easy" life here is special and it is the people who make the difference.

For me, the qualities of light, shadow, and composition are analogous to the human emotions of life's vicissitudes.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008, 2006, 2004, 2001 - Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Upper Edge Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Terrebonne Museum, Houma, Louisiana
Gallery Shva, Beersheva, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 - New Orleans Museum of Art, Katrina Exposed, New Orleans
2006 - New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, Response to Katrina
2008-1991 - New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, Annual Miniature Show
2003 - Louisiana Governor's Mansion
2002 - Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1999-97 - Merrill-Johnson Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1997 - Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'an, China
1997 - Badahsenzi Memorial Gallery, China
1995, 1993 - Carol Robinson Gallery
1993 - Zigler Museum, Jennings, Louisiana

Selected Juried Competitions

2000, 1992, 1990 - Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
1999-1994, 1992 - Pastel Society of America
1998 - American Intercontinental University
1996 - Isabel Anderson Comer Museum
1996, 1994 - Fort Walton Museum of Art
1996, 1990 - Salmagundi Club Annual
1994, 1993 - Meadows Museum of Art
1994 - Longview Museum of Art
1992-90 - Zigler Art Museum
1991, 1989 - Lincoln Center of Performing Art
1991-1989 - San Bernardino Art Museum
1989 - Arlington Museum of Fine Arts

Selected Public Collections

New Orleans Museum of Art; Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans; Memorial Medical Center, New Orleans; World Trade Center, New Orleans; Hadassah National Headquarters, New York, NY

Publications

Feature Articles:
"Eye of the Storm," Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine, 2008 [Download essay (PDF 1.8 Mb)]
"Ambience You Can Cut With A Knife," Pastel Artist International, 2001
"Creating Movement With Light," Artist's Magazine, 1999
"Creating Movement With Light," Pastel Highlights Collector Premier Edition, 1996
"Picturing What People Leave Behind," American Artist, 1995
"Placing The Subject," Artist And Illustrator, 1996
Contributor:
Katrina Exposed: A Photographic Reckoning, Mpress, 2006
Pastel Artist's Bible, Quarto Publishing, 2006
Artist's Magazine, Pastel Handbook, 2002
Pastel Artist International, 2001
"The Pastelist's Studio," Pastel Journal, 2001, 1999
Tulane Review, 2001
International Artist Magazine, 1999
New American Paintings Magazine, Open Studios Press, 1997
Integrated Language Arts, 1997
Pastel School, Quarto Publishing, 1996
Pastel Solutions, North Light Publications, 1996
Best Of Pastel, Constance Pratt and Jane Monafo, 1996
"Remembering Sabbath, Imagining Grace," The Other Side, 1996

Book and Magazine Covers

Losing And Finding, 2004
"Interiors Collection," Great American Artworks Pastels, (artwork reproduced, Burshell Pastel Collection), 2002
Pastel Artist International Magazine, 2001
Country Roads Magazine, 2008, 2000, 1998